I’m not much into Valentines, I shall however note it from a Japanese perspective. I dislike it from an North American perspective, I however admire it from a Japanese perspective, also because of how positive Valentines Day ended up being in a Japanese formalities mannerism. Sure, both North American and Japanese saddens me, and I do desire to drink, or to hide away, it however has a slight positive boost in Animetized video games and mediums. Japanese Anime & Video games is where Valentines Day tends to be more bareable.
Both Azur Lane, and even KanColle, both have awesome vibes in this regard. Nice!
(o7 = Salute.)
KanColle Valentines Day:
I also have to note how I openly stated on Twitter/X how KanColle makes me sad. It really does, especially when I constantly attempt to give it various attempts at returning to the game. It refuses to be “fun”, and it also refuses to provide seasonal outfits to both Bismarck and Warspite, both my in-game waifus. I actually ringed Bismarck, something I had to do in both KanColle and Azur Lane, something which DMM/KanColle devs fail to properly pay their respects to their very own intellectual property. Sadly, Warspite hasn’t been ringed, and her Azur Lane variation lacks. I may have to ring KanColle’s Warspite eventually, if done highly belatedly. In time, it shall be done.
KanColle also fails to be fun. It’s now 2025, and that should mean something special to the KanColle developers. They should have (by now) implemented Tirpitz, something they sadly failed to do. KanColle depresses me, and a game shouldn’t do that. I’ve seen Japanese players leave, jumping to other games and hobbies. Games are supposed to be happy, cheerful, and full of motivation. I genuinely desire to play! KanColle is sadly far too contaminated with salty radiation. I’m sorry, I really desire to connect with KanColle, it however fails to provide positive gains for its own intellectual property. No Bismarck CG, no Warspite CG, and no Tirpitz. The gameplay is also as disjointed as ever….
KanColle saddens me. 🙁
#MakeKanColleFunAgain
I had to embed ‘Sabaton – Bismarck’ because Bismarck was who initially motivated me to play KanColle. She eventually came to me after a nasty Hyuga curse, alternating between a random shipgirl, Hyuga, and eventually providing me Bismarck on my 10th attempt in KanColle. Because DMM & KanColle developers have severely not only KanColle, but also Bismarck, and also Warspite. There are more failures, obviously. I’m peeved they failed to pay respects to Bismarck, especially in 2025, and on her launch day of February 14th.
Sabaton’s Bismarck fits both KanColle & Azur Lane’s Bismarck equally. Respect o7
(Japan 2024 – Day 22 – For KanColle merchandise purchasing. From Ueno, I traveled to Kamakura-Enoshima, back to Yokohama for KanColle merchandise, retiring back at my hotel Ueno. I went to Yokohama! I purchased KanColle materials! If I didn’t care about KanColle, I wouldn’t have gone! I wouldn’t have gone to Kure, Yokosuka, Tango-Yura, nor Maizuru. I still desire to venture to Sasebo for my future trip, also for KanColle.)
Respect! o7
Azur Lane:
Azur Lane was far more fun, especially in areas where KanColle failed to provide. Where I notice an unnecessary void, Azur Lane “mostly” provided fun Valentines Day amusements in those same neglected areas. Naganami is the star of Valentine Day 2025, and she is a hot, seductive tease for this year. She’s the main MVP for 2025, and I’m genuinely surprised she went down the Christmas Bismarck route of 2024. Count me surprised.
I’ve initially desired to have Bismarck provide me her Valentines Day gift, something which failed, as noted above with double Tirpitz. We could pass that off as paying tribute to KanColle’s self-sabotage of failing to provide Tirpitz as a sister to Bismarck and Graf Zeppelin with their necessary sister-ship, one which Azur Lane has respectfully implemented and showcased. Azur Lane showing respect where KanColle failed to.
Shame on KanColle!
(I don’t hate KanColle, I’m however saddened and disappointed the developers would intentionally shoot themselves in the foot, something which allowed Azur Lane to swoop in to the rescue.)
“Ever since I realized what day it is, I haven’t stopped smiling. Hehehe, I mean, I get to just relax by your side all day. I made this chocolate with all the joy and excitement that comes with Valentine’s Day. It’s for you, Commander. Happy Valentine’s Day. – Bismarck
YAY!~ At last! Belated, but I finally have Bismarck’s present! 🙂
This makes me highly happy, almost coming full circle to both Bismarck, and with KanColle, in how Bismarck was provided full respect in Azur Lane. Ringed her in both games, and now not only having her digital Valentine’s Day present, but also her physical Valentine’s Day pin. Awesome!
This also makes me happy knowing how I’ve celebrated Valentine’s Day with HMS Formidable in both Kure (Japan), and also in Yokosuka (Japan), both hosting naval historical significance. Azur Lane and KanColle can co-exist, the “loyalists” and “Elitists” however refuse to acknowledge a simple fact. Both KanColle and Azur Lane are great, I’m however tuned into Azur Lane more for the accessibility factor.
I’m genuinely glad I have real Japanese pride (of being there twice; 2023 & 2024), and also of memories relating to KanColle, Azur Lane; Bismarck and HMS Formidable. They’re all awesome.
Japan 2024 – [Day 20] – [Day 21] – [Day 23 – Yokosuka/Formidable/Azur Lane] – For my HMS Formidable & Azur Lane stamp-rally amusements. It makes me angry when both my Azur Lane & KanColle admiration is gaslighted into being lesser than it is, even if I have overly strong, nostalgic connections to KanColle, Azur Lane, & Japan. Day 20 & 21 are of Kure, and 23 is of Yokosuka for Azur Lane Valentine’s Day amusements, also with HMS Formidable as the highlight.
I’m hoping to have Dunkerque for Valentines 2026. She’s up next, also for being my first level 100 shipgirl on Global version.
Wholesome! I wish KanColle had these 3D dorm elements.
Bonus – Extra Images:
February 12th, into 13th (Wednesday into Thursday) dumped 20 cm of snow, initially forecasted to be 40, stalling out the city briefly with clean-up duty. I also had to partake in this by shoveling, snow blowing (taking turns), and cleaning up when others were not able to.
(Another 20-40 cm is incoming for the weekend, days after the previous one. Was noted to have a full ~43 cm of snow in an 48 hour period for the weekend.)
Attempted to order my belatedly ordered HMS Formidable (Azur Lane) from an Anime provider. I failed to do so for months, somehow finally tending to such after the fact. A few hiccups, HMS Formidable in Nendoroid form however incoming. She is one of my Azur Lane ‘waifus’, after all. I’ve also mailed some overly belated gifts to one of my Japanese friends, something I’m tending to slowly. I’ve finally sent it off hoping Canada Post and Japan Post shall handle it with care. Wishing both parcels/packages the best! Praying they’ll make it. *praying emoji*
I’ve also desired to eat Salmon sushi for today, I was rejected. I wasn’t allowed to eat Salmon sushi, something I should have done in an alternative manner than what I had desired. My instincts were correct, and I failed to heed my own internal advice. I’ve also visited a new local Asian grocer (Green Fresh Supermarket), something which mostly competes with the likes of T&T Supermarket. Nice! I failed to have my sushi, I however had everything else. Peking duck, instant noodles, and some other side treats. I shall still aim for salmon sushi, if belatedly.
(I hate how North American practices always punishes me, and I always fume at that. Always when I desire a specific treat, others have to sabotage my plans…..)
The food totaling to $30 Canadian, all because Canada’s economy sucks from Dictator Trudeau’s meddling. At least the Sushi was great, and worthwhile, and something I had to obtain the day after the Valentine’s Day celebrating. The wasabi came out of my nose, burning my nose. Everything was fresh, good, and rewarding. Somewhat worth it, if at least for the whole self-rewarding novelty of it all.
Pokemon – Valentines Day Attempt | 2 Shiny Pokemon Obtained!:
For the whole fun of it, my goal was to obtain Milcery, and I sadly missed out on it. Maybe for the best, especially with how Milcery is a 5-star Valentines Day raid. Instead, and I noted I would edit Pokemon into this blog posting, with how I obtained a shiny Litwick and shiny Meowth. Worth it!
With that, my mission is completed for Valentines Day, and that’s it. I had to edit this Pokemon bit in, and I’m happy with my gains, and rewards. I’m also still loosely attempting to obtain a shiny Vulpix, something I hope to eventually obtain in proper time.
I’m genuinely happy Japan knows how to treat people with respect, like humans, and with proper formalities. Sure, there may be disconnection from social gaps, or even regional barriers, Japan however made me happier than North America via creative avenues. There are severe times where I simply feel severely disconnected in Canada, and it shows in other males in Canada. Japan, even if it’s done indirectly, always manages to lift me up, and I admire that. I admire Japan’s intentional (or unintentional) motivational boosts, especially via it’s creative avenues, something which Chinese mobile games (gacha) are now tending to. Azur Lane is now one of those games pretending to be Japanese (faux-Japanese vibes) to tend to what gamers actually desire, and it’s paying off highly. Who knew that – “honesty is your best policy” – would actually pay the bills, attract customers, and make everybody happy? The vast majority of normal humans, of course, and those who do not practice falsified political Left-Wing activism (‘PoriKore’).
I’m not much for Valentine’s Day, but I do admire it from a Japanese-Anime perspective. If it’s not treated in a strict traditional sense, then it’s useless. It’s made far less worthwhile thanks to external sabotage from Left-Leaning (falsely blaming Right-wing) political interference all for a non-issue of “political corrected”, also known as ‘PoriKore’ in Japan. Even the Japanese locals are peeved with corrupted foreigners, and I’m glad they’re peeved over rotten Left-Wing Western political activism. Anime is bliss, and it’s where we all escape from stresses of life. The brief calm before returning to reality where deranged Left-wing nutcases berate you, sabotage you, gaslighting you, pretend “we” (actual humans) live in a “fantasy world”, something which comes off as hypocritically ironic from those very same left-wing deranged people. They utter these delusional phrases, something which matches them (“PoriKore” activism) far more than it does with normal people going on about their lives. It suits them 100%, and less so with us normal people. They’re (left-wing; Non-locals) always destroying statues, defecating on beaches, turning normal urban areas into ghettos, and destroying everything precious. Anime is my bliss, my life, and I admire it so. It’s why others (and myself) flee to Japanese and Asian mediums. We flee from left-wing internal sabotage to regain our well earned and deserved peace, creativity, and dignity. It’s also why Japan is obviously the source of my happiness, also because it contains strict traditional (Conservative) values, ones which mostly brings peace and stability into the world, and also one which we admire Japan for, and travel to Japan. We’re always praising Japan, and Left-Wing lunatics’ are always either sabotaging Japan, or even attempting to hijack Japan through various means, channels, and corporate avenues. You don’t have to believe me, it’s happening as we speak, and people are seeing Japanese self-sabotaging themselves to the point China & South Korea have to pick up the slack from Western and Japanese avenues. They have to, they are, and they also smell Japanese blood in the water, just as much as they see European and North American blood from all the vile left-wing political nonsense. View Blue Archive, Stellar Blade, Palworld, Project Tonin, among numerous others. Azur Lane is the void filler of KanColle, and etc……
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“But, Arcticu, you’re always lying, and live in a fantasy World… Everything you say is false, and wrong!” – Left-Wing Trolls.
The traditional world, the real world, strongly disagrees with you. Traditional Europe, Asia, Japan, and those who do not practice Left-Wing political activism firmly disagree with you. Same with the Japanese, various Chinese who have been humbled by reality, and those who fled brutal communist regimes around the world.
(They all sound the same when they come from various forum trolls, hellbent on devaluing you and everybody else over falsified ideologies.)
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I’m obviously aware Japan isn’t perfect, and the signs are obvious. Their culture and intellectual superiority allows them to be far more creatively expressive than us, and especially above any deranged ‘PoriKore’ activism defecating on local and international soils. Those activists sabotaged Western media into a brain-rotted level to the point they also force themselves to make actual fake Westernized Anime to compete with Japanese Anime. Japan inspired from Disney, yet Left-Wing activists in America can’t inspire from Japan, farting and pooping everywhere in the process. They’re always spewing North-Korea & China-level political propaganda in the Western World, the same crap which also forces normal people to seek alternative avenue avoid their political drivel. Left-Leaning political nonsense is just that, drivil. It’s why Anime is now dangerously mainstream, highly misunderstood, and has an overly unnecessarily large following all thanks to sterilized, politicized, and perversely deranged Western mediums. American cartoons are no longer superior, as they used to be up to the 1990’s allowing Anime to win in more areas than it naturally would. Gundam Wing alone (in 2000’s) managed to outpace anything in the 1990’s range, and it’s also from the same era. This situation isn’t a blessing towards Anime, though it however shows where people genuinely desire to be. These normal people desire to run away from Left-Wing political propaganda, and towards proper escapism, something Japan-S.Korea-China (Asia) actually provides. China sees the blood in the water, they hunt, and we have more faux-Japanese mediums as a result. China is also attacking Japanese gaming & Anime markets thanks to these same sabotages. With all that, and with all these pushes, you can see all these various mostly-successful mediums. They connect with our desires, and they’re advertised in areas where Western political sabotage is high. This is also the same situation where these same media refugees (as noted previously; Normal people) not only escape Left-Wing political propaganda, they also may not be able to intellectually grasp Japan’s hidden messages, subtle references, creative and artistic decisions within these mediums. They however know they desire to be with “lower-tier” (entry) Anime shows and games, only if it’s a lower-IQ version for the Western world. They can only watch the lower spectrum thanks to their lower IQ range. There’s a whole mess within the anime world, such as tribal-mentality (pretending to admire Anime), or clout-chasing, left-wing hijacking, and etc. It’s a nasty world. People desired Anime to be niche, and it should have stayed niche.
Sadly, Japan also needs to strongly revert back to its full-on creative influences, as they’ve been known to be from 1980s, into the 1990’s, 2000’s, and 2020’s. Japan has been corrupted by Left-Wing saboteaurs, and they need to be purged ‘as-soon-as-possible’. Japan needs to firmly purge Left-Wing ‘PoriKore’ from within to return to its glory days, something which Japan can easily do, if motivated. Nintendo, Square Enix, Sony, and numerous other mainstream companies have been intentionally sabotaged. There may be many more companies which have been rudely sabotaged….. Japan honestly needs more traditionalism, social honesty, and actual respect to those in the working & education sectors. As much as I admire Japan, it was sadly rigged (with Asia, Europe, and North America) to falter towards, and over ‘PoriKore’ sabotage, and it’s a sad thing to see. I believe in Japan, just as long as they choose to fully wake up. Japan needs to be kicked awake to purge ‘PoriKore’ activism out of its country to return to its former glory gaming days. I admire Japan, it however needs to stop being sabotaged by Left-Wing political activism. Japan firmly reminds me of traditional Slovakia, one where common sense and “tough love” always wins. Where one can could be honest with nudity and lewdness, as the Japanese are, to the point you live with formalities, respect, and hold life with sacred perspectives.
(I find it hypocritically ironic how Left-Wing Westerners travel to Japan to preach about LGBTQ ideologies, the same ones which lead to sexual violations of females & kids, destruction of property (destroying statues, parks, etc), censorship of media, violent flag burnings, death of video games, & movies; financial destruction to everything. It’s intentional, and they desire the death of the world, and Japan. Anime & Japan is my bliss, and I admire the last remaining heavenly escapism, ones these fact activists need to be purged from I admire Japan’s traditional take on Valentine’s Day, one away from political ‘PoriKore’ activism. Unlike traditional Europe and Japan, ‘PoriKore’ values doesn’t hold life in a sacred light. Everything is a ‘Sin’, religion is intentionally sabotaged, and festivities are viewed as “offensive”. They freely desire to desecrate religious and sacred values of human society. Tradition and sacred perspectives is what gives these festivities the very meaning and life, something which is intentionally sabotaged over polluted, falsified ‘PoriKore’ ideologies. They hate Japan, they however desire to hijack Japan, sabotage it, and destroy it for their own Left-Wing political gains. They desire to be in Japan’s high-trust society, yet equally sabotage it, if not more so than how much they claim to admire Japan.)
Japan is straight to the point, and I admire it so. Formalities and dignity over ‘PoriKore’ retardation and sabotage. Anime & Japan is bliss, and it’s no wonder we worship Japan as much as we do. Respect o7.